I’ve spoken to Sephiroth before (founder of Allnodes). He was kind enough to let me know rough figures. He does a great service and is an important part of ecosystem and he really does provide nice tooling for managing the nodes so I would be an ass if I blamed it on Allnodes. They do try to spread out datacenter locations but they mainly use DigitalOcean.
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I don’t encourage dropping block time. Although It seems that master nodes will get more rewards with this change, the change is unstable. As your comment in previous topics, the current state of the system can’t rely on trx fee and we are not sure there will be strong adaptability in the near future. What is the point of increasing emission rate?
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The drop in block time will be accompanied with a halving of rewards meaning there’s no acceleration of emission. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. This was a casual suggestion in the other thread but is not part of this vote/poll.
The drop in block time is just to get faster confirmations especially since FiroPoW blocks are pretty damn small.
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Also welcome to the community!!! Always happy to see new faces.
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Could you please make another post, poll, announcement about this with more details ? I get the main points, but some new comers may be not.
I mean the blocktime halving.
Ah sure, will do that. It’s an interesting proposal but don’t know if it’s the right time to do it. I’ll open it up for discussion.
First project of the community fund should be to fix the edit button lol.
I think merge mining with Monero maybe an idea if miners don’t diversify. I was against it when it was first proposed. I thought Firo should be independent and I assumed the mining community were supportive of Firo as a project. Experiencing the 51% changed my mind on this somewhat, with a few notable exceptions though.
I think this topic being re-evaluated in 6 months is also a good idea.
We need to see how Monero miners view Firo as well though or else shifting one problem to the other though it’s an interesting idea but it’s rather strange to align ourselves with a competitor. I would be more minded to explore integration into another ecosystem.
Look, 33% of all Firo enabled masternodes are located in ONE data center, so we need to work on nice masternode location distribution too.
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On 30th of April I made analysis of all enabled masternodes and it seems that in 10 most used datacenters are hosted 79.5% of masternodes. And most used datacenter in Germany (from Hetzner) hosts 33.6% of enabled masternodes (huge part of that is most likely from Allnodes).
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Interesting, thank you.
If I understand your text correctly, this seems perfectly compatible with my estimate of 28% masternodes at allnodes (because a large part, the 33%, does not mean all).It’s far cry from the “over 80%” hashrate concentrated at 2Miners for miners.
Yeh I agree, I think there should be research to allow for home hosting solutions at some point.
Apparently this is not a trivial thing to implement though… so probably not something to do right now.
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A raspberry pi will run a masternode just fine.
The problem with hosting at home is the network connection. If the nodes could use onion addresses networking would not be a problem.
Hmm I hadn’t thought of onion addresses, sounds interesting. Do onion addresses add much latency or other trade off’s?
some latency yes. but with an onion address, the onion would do the routing.
I’m not sure if I’m typical, but I have for instance a mac mini plugged into my TV, used solely for watching stuff. It’s connected to the internet approximately 99.99% of the time.
Personally I’d really like to use that to host nodes.
I could also be very censorship resistant. Right now with energy shocks in Germany and the rest of Europe… It’s not hard to imagine governments coming after consumers who use a lot of energy. A node on the other hand has a low energy footprint.
It would be interesting to know how much it would affect a nodes function. If it added only 0.5 seconds to transaction time or something, that maybe a good trade off?